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Bullet train : a novel / Kotaro Isaka ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa.

by Isaka, Kōtarō, 1971-

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The Overlook Press, 2021.

Teenage boys -- Fiction.

Psychopaths -- Fiction.

Assassins -- Fiction.

Coma -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.

High speed trains -- Fiction.

9781419756337 (hc.)

Maria Bītoru. English.

415 p. ; 24 cm.

First published in Japan in 2010 by Kadokawa with the title Maria Bītoru.

"Soon to be a major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Joey King" --cover.

In English, translated from the Japanese.

Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same.

A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin in the world"--boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase--and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, "the Prince," with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others. Risk fuels him, as does a good philosophical debate... like, is killing really wrong? Chasing the Prince is another assassin with a score to settle for the time the Prince casually pushed a young boy off of a roof, leaving him comatose. When the five assassins discover they are all on the same train, they realize their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear. A massive bestseller in Japan, Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with an incredible energy and surprising humor as its complex net of double-crosses and twists unwind. Award-winning author Kotaro Isaka takes readers on a tension-packed journey as the bullet train hurtles toward its final destination. Who will make it off the train alive--and what awaits them at the last stop?

Suspense fiction.

Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.

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